-economic development, human security, or peace. Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa reevaluates the role that foreign …-Saharan Africa. Through research and an analysis of in-depth interviews with local stakeholders in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia … in Africa puts forward a novel framework for understanding the role of private economic actors in extractive industries …

deciding where to invest, this signal has the potential to improve a country’s appeal for foreign direct investment (FDI). This … study shows in a panel of 81 countries that joining the EITI increases the ratio of FDI inflows to GDP on average by around … two percentage points. This is a remarkable increase given that the average ratio of FDI inflows to GDP in the sample is …